Secondly, personal health and safety is being influenced by
exposure to a combination of potential hazards, some of which
are inherently linked to the nature of seafaring as a profession
rather than from the activity of environmental compliance alone.
This has important implications for understanding health and
well-being in the workplace, suggesting the need for a broader definition
which focuses on more than just the traditional predictors
of stress and accidents or injury.
The third result is that participants in this study did not report
ill-health from performing environmental compliance tasks. Therefore,
the extent of exposures to carcinogens and pathogens remains
unknown among these workers for whom such exposure is not
only infrequent and intermittent but occurs in relatively smaller
amounts. This finding is consistent with a recent European OSH
report that incidence rates for occupational diseases and workrelated
health problems in the transport sector are lower than
the for the general working population (EU-OSHA, 2011), raising
concern about their growing under-recognition or possible
underreporting.